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A new parenting trend that sees babies as young as newborns go without diapers has been taking the U.S. by storm.
The method, known as 'elimination communication', or EC, requires infants to learn to signal when they need to use the bathroom - though the teaching method, it seems, can get quite messy.
Kaitlin McGreyes from Astoria, New York, who started practicing EC with her nine-month-old son Cesar as a newborn, says she saved money by buying fewer diapers, but she got 'peed and pooped on a lot.'
In a bid to keep things clean she said: 'At two weeks old I set up a little Tupperware container near our diaper-changing station.
I'm dumbstruck & I don't understand the appeal, AT ALL! Is this something any of you parents would consider?
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Yeah I think I would stick to traditional methods.
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(04-19-2013, 11:30 AM)ESAD Wrote: Yeah I think I would stick to traditional methods.
You ain't kiddin'. I wouldn't even want parents who practice that to bring their kid to my house.
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Yeah, I would tell them to fuck back to the farm from whence they came.
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Cheap bastards. So when the baby shits itself in the middle of the night, it sleeps in its own poop? Nice.
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Cheap-ass 'modern parenting' pffft.
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At night the butt plug supplied with the "kit" is used. Just be careful uncorking that SOB.
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
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It's gross. Darling babies are for cuddling, I wouldn't cuddle one of them, I don't want to be pooped or peed on. Yuk.
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No, I could not let my child walk around shitting and pissing throughout my home. Ewww No!
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No way!!!
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
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No. Just no.
Devil Money Stealing Aunt
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A baby at that age is no way cognitive enough to know when he or she has to "go"...it is rather like telling the cat to tell you before it uses the litter box. Let me tell you..if the parents want to do that, fine..but if it were my grandkid, a diaper is going on if they ever expect me to babysit.
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Just saw the pictures after I posted my remarks. If an adult would not THINK to just squat and go when ever the need struck in public, why do they feel it is appropriate to make a id do it? All those kids are gonna grow up thinking that is ok, then they get arrested when they are still doing it at 18.
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An all round resounding no then... good...
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Just read this.
Diapers are expensive, but they are a necessity, unless you're cool with excrement and pee all over your house.
Very stupid.
My daughter was trained at just over 2 years old, which I considered very good (both my boys were 3+).
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